community art

City [In] Visible

Parul — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:04:42 -0400

City [In] Visible

An art project which will be generating dialogues and narratives with local communities in the neighborhood of Khirkee village. These communities subsist on daily-wage earnings in small workshops and factories, as construction labourers, as artisans. Though barely seen, they remain a crucial demographic variable within the rapidly expanding and impersonal cosmopolitan ethos of high-end shopping complexes, business centres and corporate habitats.
Within the relentlessly mutating metropolitan landscape today, the migrant working class is subject to various powerful modes of alienation, even while the city enlarges these communities’ frames of reference, deconstructs small town and rural prejudices, offers a range of new affiliations, and new possibilities of personal freedom. Both hostile and hospitable, this paradoxical space of seductive modernity and burgeoning new capital is a dramatic arena
of technological efficiency, fetishism, affluence and material fixation, as well as an interface fostering human connectivity and the creation of significant informal local networks that allow people to survive in the absence of secure work.
The primary site for the execution of the residency art project would be the mega shopping mall across the road from Khirkee.

Flipbook Workshop

Saranjit — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:49:06 -0400

Flipbook Workshop

A youth course on making flipbooks.
The course will explore and explain the basic elements of design, from the simple materials
(paper, pen, scissors, staplers) to the design methods (sequential timing, spatial reasoning)
in simple, hands-on lessons.

Zareyein-2

khoj studio — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:23:17 -0400

Zareyein-2

Zariyein in November 2006 was primarily aimed at gaining a foothold and finding entry points in the amorphous space that Khirkee is. The predominant question in our heads (as people given to research and representation) was how does one begin to and arrive at knowing a space that is so outside of our own lived realities. Keeping this question in mind, we sought collaboration with a few residents of Khirkee to create a collective understanding and representation of this space using the medium of photographs and conversations.

Zariyein in Meghalaya in the months of June and July was different as it was allied with another research project that we have been doing in Shillong and the East Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya. This time Zariyein has become a means to unravel various strands of our research questions and understand and document various arenas that we thought were significant for this process.

Visual Poetry and Body Calligraphy

khoj studio — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:44:43 -0400

Visual Poetry and Body Calligraphy

Visual Poetry and Body Calligraphy Project was organised by Jose Abad and supported by Deaf Ways, the Spanish Embassy and KHOJ. Based on interdisciplinary arts that blend together Spanish poetry, photography, Indian sign language, body movement, and gesture, Visual Poetry and Body Calligraphy was a participatory community based art project implemented within the Deaf community in New Delhi. The aim of the art project was to explore disability and representation through a range of different performative concepts. The goal was to explore the body as tool for language and visual communication.

Project Report II

Parul — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:09:23 -0400

City [In] Visible

Project Report I

Parul — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:05:55 -0400

CITY [IN]VISIBLE
Project Report (I)

The focus of my six-week residency at Khoj is to develop an art project through generating dialogues and narratives with local communities in the neighbourhood of Khirki Village. This neighbourhood, along with nearby Hauz Rani, are part of the unauthorised colony of Khirki Extension in South Delhi.

City [In] VisibleProject Reports

Parul — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:54:51 -0400

Reports by Sreejata Roy (artist-in-residence) and Anuradha Pathak (intern),in collaboration with Mrityunjay Chatterjee

Flipbook Workshop by Daniel Sptitzberg

Saranjit — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:27:43 -0400

COURSE DESCRIPTION
:
Purpose: Flipbooks are basic – even primitive – animations that can be constructed for
practically no cost. Students will gain the tools to make their own flipbooks and then
advance towards more complicated animations in a self-taught and/or peer-inspired way.
Audience: The ideal number of participants is between eight and 12, which allows for
maximum attention and ensures focus and concentration on the creative task at hand,
hopefully also with peer encouragement and some friendly competition.

Zariyein >>> East Khasi Hills >>> Meghalaya

hemant — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:37:30 -0400

Zariyein, in its first phase, was carried out in Khirki Village and was directed towards arriving at a very basic “knowing” of the space, Khirki, using the medium of photographs and conversations to try and create a collective understanding and representation of the space. We would now like to extend the scope of Zariyein by using the same methods in an altogether distinct context – Meghalaya.

Zariyein >>> East Khasi Hills >>> Meghalaya

hemant — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:22:52 -0400